Proclamation under sections 6 and 7 of the Act (2005-768) (NSW)

2005 No 768

New South Wales

Proclamation

under the

Marine Parks Act 1997

MARIE BASHIR, Governor I, Professor Marie Bashir AC, Governor of the State of New South Wales, with the advice of the Executive Council, and in pursuance of sections 6 and 7 of the Marine Parks Act 1997, do, by this my Proclamation, declare the area described in Part 2 of Schedule 1 below to be, on and from 1 December 2005, a marine park for the purposes of that Act. The marine park is to be known as “Port Stephens-Great Lakes Marine Park”.

Signed and sealed at Sydney, this 30th day of November 2005.

By Her Excellency’s Command,

IAN MACDONALD, M.L.C.,	BOB DEBUS, M.P.,
Minister for Primary Industries	Minister for the Environment

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Published in Gazette No 147 of 1 December 2005, page 9851	Page 1
2005 No 768	Proclamation
Schedule 1
Schedule 1
Part 1	Definitions

In this Schedule:
territorial sea baseline means the territorial sea baseline declared under section 7 of
the Seas and Submerged Lands Act 1973 of the Commonwealth in the
Commonwealth of Australia Gazette No S29 of 9 February 1983.
tidal lands means any area of land that is covered from time to time by tidal waters

and that is above the lowest astronomical tide level.

Part 2 Description of the area to be known as Port
Stephens-Great Lakes Marine Park

The boundary encompasses all tidal and coastal waters within the area set out below, together with all the lands beneath the waters within that area to mean high water mark:

(a)	commencing at a point at the intersection of the mean high water mark and latitude 32°11′47.577″S at the southern end of One Mile Beach, Forster,
(b)	then by a line along latitude 32°11′47.577″S to a point 3 nautical miles east of the territorial sea baseline,
(c)	then generally in a southerly direction (including all coastal waters within 3 nautical miles of the territorial sea baseline of the coast and within 3 nautical miles of the territorial sea baseline of Seal Rocks, Broughton Island, Little Broughton Island, Cabbage Tree Island, Little Island and Boondelbah Island) to a point 3 nautical miles south of the territorial sea baseline at the northern end of Stockton Beach,
(d)	then by a line along longitude 152°04′25″E, north to a point at the intersection of the mean high water mark at the northern end of Stockton Beach,
(e)	then generally in a northerly direction along the coast at mean high water mark (including all rivers, estuaries, bays, lakes, lagoons and inlets upstream to their tidal limit, and tidal lands, and including but not limited to the whole of Port Stephens, Myall Lakes and Smiths Lake) to the commencement point described in paragraph (a) above.

BY AUTHORITY